Apple has announced a new iPhone 5S, available in white, black and gold, and packing a refreshed camera, 64-bit A7 processor and Touch ID sensor. It's also unveiled a budget iPhone 5C, which will feature a plastic build in a variety of different colours, along with further details of iOS 7.

We'll be getting hands-on with the new Apple iPhones, so stay tuned for our first impressions.

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iPhone 5S – new camera, Touch ID and M7 sensor

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19:12 We're done, guys - stay tuned to Stuff this evening for news round-ups and hands-on reviews of the 5S and 5C.

19:11 ...or perhaps it's just the introduction of a musical guest to stage. "Please join me in welcoming our friend Elvis Costello". Now this is a surprise.

19:10 "Before we close this morning, I'd like to return to music for a moment". Ooh, maybe there is a One More Thing.

19:09 To our knowledge these are the first iPhones that Apple has endorsed the use of cases with. It's never sold cases for iPhones before. Is this tacit recognition that the iPhone 5 was scratch-prone, and that peeved a lot of users?

19:08 This feels like a wrap-up from Tim. Time for a One More Thing, Tim? No. Time for another Apple advert.

19:07 It'll be in 100 countries and on 270 carriers by the end of 2013. And that's the end.

19:06 iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S comes to the US, UK, China, Singapore and more on the 20th September – as predicted.

18:45 Phil's back: "we have a new part in the iPhone 5S called the M7 - it contnuously measures motion data without eating the CPU up" - here come some very cool new fitness apps.

18:44 "Infinity Blade 3 will be available in the App Store alongside the iPhone 5S" - so, when is that, chaps?

18:43 "I really think this represents a sea change for our industry". From here, it looks the same but a little bit better.

18:43 It took two hours to convert Infinity Blade's code to 64-bit. "We can now introduce lens flares that would make JJ Abrams proud". The game does look impressive.

18:40 "We're going to introduce the conclusion to Infinity Blade".

18:40 "What's really amazing is when you see it the first time". Donald Mustard from Epic Games is up. "I can hardly believe it's 3 years since we introduced Infinity Blade".

18:39 The A7 is up to twice as fast as the iPhone 5, 40x as fast as the original iPhone. It's twice as fast graphically as the iPhone 5's A6, and 56x as fast as the original iPhone. BLAZING.

18:37 The A7 has "desktop-class architecture", says Phil: it has over a billion transistors. iOS 7 has been re-engineered to work with 64-bit. Legacy apps will work fine, but devs can also create new apps in 64-bit.

18:36 The iPhone 5S is a huge leap forward in mobile performace. The new A7 chip is 64-bit: the first ever 64-bit mobile phone.

18:36 There's a pair of LEDs around the back, as rumoured.

18:36 It's made of high-grade aluminium, with those chamfered edges and glass inlays. It's the iPhone 5 - except in new colours.

18:35 It's available in gold, black and silver!

18:34 Schiler's back: "The second is called iPhone 5S, perhaps the most forward thinking phone anyone has created".

iPhone 5C – 16GB for US$99, US$199 for 32GB

Apple iPhone 5C

Apple iPhone 5C

Apple iPhone 5C

Apple iPhone 5C

18:33 iOS 7's interface will be coloured to complement the colour of your iPhone 5C. "It's the vivid realisation of hardware and software together in one device". Thanks you, Jony Ive, for speaking slowly.

18:33 It's going to be huge. With the cases, it feels like iPod Mini all over again. And that was EPIC.

18:30 "iPhone 5C is beautifully, unapologetically plastic". Err...

18:31 It does look pretty special. Hoping it feels more robust than the similarly unapologetically plastic phones from Samsung et al.

18:30 'The iPhone 5C is the distillation of everything that people love about the iPhone 5," says Jony Ive on video.

18:29 Starts in 16GB for US$99, or US$199 for 32GB on a two-year contract. (That's pretty cheap, everyone). The covers are US$29.

18:28 There's a new FaceTime HD camera up front with backside illumination for better low-light performnce. It supports more LTE bands than any other smartphone in the world, apparently.

18:15 The Music App is being shown off. At The Drive-In's 'Relationship of Command' is at the top. Apple, you have taste.

18:14 Now we're in the new Photos app. The Year View is very neat - like Windows' semantic zoom, but for thousands of photos. Great if you can't be bothered to organise your photos on your phone, like me.

18:13 Craig's iOS 7 notifications are talking the mickey out of his sculpted white hair: "Pick up shampoo and conditioner". That gets a few laughs.

18:12 We're doing a whistlstop tour of iOS 7 now - nothing we haven't seen before. Check out all the details here.

18:11 Federighi says the Notifications pull-down is 'totally handy'.

18:10 Craig Federighi's on stage to talk up iOS 7. "We're going to witness an event unheard of in this industry. Next month, hundreds of millions of devices will get upgraded to iOS 7." We guess that means legacy iPhones and iPads won't be getting iOS 7 until October.

18:09 "Next month we'll ship the 700 millionth iOS device."

18:08 "We've been hard at work completing iOS7 - the latest version of the most advanced mobile opperating system in the world"

18:07 TC's now talking up retail. There's a new bigger Apple Store opening up in Stanford. A few claps, the odd whoop. "It's architecturally stunning".

18:04 Pause for a video of London, full of Londoners looking London-y. This video is not aimed at people who are actually from London.

18:03 Apparently 20 million people wanted to get in this year. The Americans found that funny.

18:02 He's talking up London's iTunes Festival. "This year is the best one yet". It's 30 night in a row at the Roundhouse in Camden, and it's free.

18:01 "We are really excited to show you a few things this morning that we're really proud of".

17:56 Apparently Al Gore's in Cupertino for this. Is Apple about to save the world?

17:55 Guess who's on the stereo now? It's Vampire Weekend, of course!

17:54 So our mid-range predictions are probably right on the money.

17:54 Futuresource Consulting reckons that the iPhone 5C won't be priced too cheaply – because Apple won't want to eat into profits for the iPhone 5S. "Apple may be unlikely to position itself in direct competition with the entry level Android smartphones sold in large volumes in China by domestic vendors such as Huawei, ZTE, Coolpad and Xiaomi, which make up over half of the Chinese market. Rather it will aim to gain share in the mid-priced section of the market."

17:37 Thomas Bostrøm Jørgensen, CEO of authentication experts Encap, isn't convinced by the iPhone 5S' rumoured fingerprint sensor (which as yet is still very much a rumour, so he might just be jumping the gun a bit):

“The inclusion of a fingerprint sensor in the new iPhone has been hailed by some as a game changer. This isn’t the case.

“Fingerprint sensors, and other biometric authentication methods such as eye vein scans and face recognition, may allow us to feel as though we are in a Blade Runner-like sci-fi future – but they are not on their own the best way to authenticate people. Their strength is also their biggest flaw – while a password or PIN can be changed, fingerprints are not easily switched if they are hacked. Hacking a fingerprint may sound as if it’s only possible through rather gruesome means, but it is very possible to steal fingerprints through more social methods – lifting a print from a discarded coffee cup is no more science fiction than the fingerprint scanner itself.

“The industry needs instead to move towards multi-factor authentication, where biometrics is just part of the way a user is identified. A single factor, whether it’s a PIN (something you know), a smartphone (something you have) or a fingerprint (who you are), is not enough on its own. The iPhone’s fingerprint sensor is a significant step but not a silver bullet.”

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17:34 While you're waiting for the event proper to start, check out thisrather good spoof video for the iPhone 5S.

17:26 And we're in. Foals on the stereo. They wear shirts with similarly undersized collars to Vampire Weekend, so our music prediction was RIGHT ON THE MONEY. Hopefully our predictions on new iPhones and iPads are too.

17:21 We're already getting press releases for iPhone 5C accessories. Unless everyone's very much mistaken, we'll see the 5C tonight, and based on the Kensington cases we spotted at IFA, a new 9.7in iPad Mini-shaped iPad 5, too.

Where are we now?

Apple liveblog

Apple liveblog

16:26 We're back in Berlin after a weekend off following IFA to watch the only livestream of the Cupertino Town Hall event in the world. And, hopefully, to get our hands on everything announced.

The stream's taking place at the Kurfurstendamm Apple Store, a recently opened temple to iEverything nestled in a lovingly restored historic cinema building.

At 5:30pm we'll be making our way to the screening room, where we're expecting a barrage of Vampire Weekend and other purveyors of preppy indie pop before the action starts.

Apple keynotes at this time of year have traditionally focused on the iPod line-up, so in addition to the new iPhones and iPads it's highly likely we'll see a few new media players, too. You'll have more as we get it.